Like the voyages of Star Trek that tested the nerves of the captain and crew of the USS Enterprise, ERP often has been an adventure, testing the nerves of CIOs and other business executives. As the next generation of ERP continues to evolve, are you evolving with it, or are you stuck in the darkness of the 20th century? Like the USS Enterprise, whose 5-yr. mission was to explore new worlds and "to boldly go where no man has gone before," early versions of enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) software charted new territory for enterprise applications. It evolved from MRP (material requirements planning) to MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) and then boldly set out to conquer the "final frontier" of ERP: managing not a small piece of the enterprise but the enterprise itself. And like the Star Trek franchise, after playing on both large and small screens for more than two decades, a "next gener- ation" of ERP has been born: faster, more technologically enabled and more in tune with the evolving needs of the galaxy.
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